Carson Sweet Email Address

Chief Cloud Security Officer

CloudPassage Halo is the world s leading security and compliance automation platform that provides instant visibility and continuous protection for servers in any combination of data centers, private clouds and public clouds. The Halo platform is a SaaS-based solution delivered as a metered service so it deploys in minutes, scales dynamically and you only pay for what you use. Halo is unique in that it shifts analytics processing from servers into the cloud, so it uses minimal resources on protected systems. This allows layered security to be deployed at every workload--servers, virtual machines, cloud instances and containers. The Halo platform offers a broad range of functions, so you can eliminate the management of numerous single-function point solutions.

Carson Sweet is the chairman and chief executive officer of CloudPassage. His information security career has spanned nearly two decades and includes a broad range of entrepreneurial, management and hands-on technology experience. In his early career as an information security strategy and technology consultant, Carson created and implemented groundbreaking security solutions across a range of industries and public sectors. Prior to co-founding CloudPassage he served as RSA's principal solutions architect for the financial services sector, where he specifically focused on virtualization & cloud security, Internet application controls, data protection and anti-fraud. Carson formerly served as founding CSO for GlobalNetXchange (now Agentrics) and CTO for the Investor Responsibility Research Center (now the RiskMetrics Group). He also founded security consulting and managed services lines of business for RPM Consulting (acquired by Computer Horizons Corporation), TimeBridge Technologies (acquired by Dimension Data) and Security Methods. Prior to his technology career Carson served in the U.S. military as a heavy anti-armor weapons specialist and later as a career firefighter-paramedic. He studied emergency health sciences at the Jefferson College for Health Sciences, pre-medical neuropsychology at Virginia Commonwealth University/Medical College of Virginia and information technology at the University of Massachusetts.